Matt Levine discusses the issues with GameStop’s bid to buy eBay, futures for computing power, Buzzfeed and Byron Allen, transfer restrictions on private shares and forward contracts, and what if AI takes over the ‘looking busy’ part of work.

ServiceNow Inc. attracted strong investor demand for its first US dollar bond sale since 2020, defying concerns about artificial intelligence disruption.

Amazon.com Inc. sold its first Swiss franc bonds across a record six tranches, as Big Tech looks beyond its regular debt markets to raise funds.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of more than a decade developing systems using blockchain, a novel technology that was supposed to radically upend financial markets, but has yet to become a game-changer.

Trump family members made roughly $1.55 billion from sales of World Liberty Financial Inc. tokens, lifting their total fortune by about $660 million, after accounting for previously undisclosed transactions, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The Bitcoin Society, a start-up backed by French NBA star Tony Parker and entrepreneur Éric Larchevêque, has ditched plans to build a crypto treasury, months after announcing the strategy.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held that a sole estate beneficiary had standing to pursue a federal tax refund claim where no personal representative had ...

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims held that a taxpayer failed to establish jurisdiction over his refund suit because he did not file timely administrative refund claims within the statutory ...

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma held that the IRS was not required to provide notice before issuing a third-party summons to a bank because the ...

The chairman of the top US energy regulator is calling on Congress to limit states’ power under the Clean Water Act as lawmakers consider an overhaul of environmental permitting laws.

A group of property owners and nonprofits can hold Cook County, Ill. responsible for its unconstitutional tax foreclosure methods, a federal court said.

The US saw a smaller budget surplus in April — a key month for federal revenues — as individual and corporate tax receipts dropped in the wake of President Donald Trump’s signature tax cut legislation.

Amendments to Mexico’s Federal Labor Law published May 1 decrease the workweek to 40 hours by 2030 and gradually increase the allowable overtime hours per week, matching changes already made to the country’s constitution.

A former O’Reilly Automotive Inc. worker challenging the company’s practice of charging tobacco-using employees extra fees for health coverage must file an amended complaint to keep his proposed class action alive.

Alaska Airlines Inc. reached a class-wide settlement with pilots who said they were wrongly denied the chance to accrue vacation time while they were absent from work to serve in the military.

Congress made the adoption tax credit partially refundable for 2026—but an IRS crackdown on fraud could turn that pro-family policy into another refund-delay mechanism. To fix the problem, the agency should publish specific related guidance to make claiming the credit faster and easier, says Andrew Leahey.

The IRS’s new method for extending the time to administratively resolve employee retention credit disputes is good news for taxpayers, but litigation in federal court may still be a better option for some, Taft’s Holland King says.

The current effects of AI on retirement plans are operational, fiduciary, and uneven across plan types, says Hall Benefits’ Samuel W. Krause in the first of a two-part article.

Congress made the adoption tax credit partially refundable for 2026—but an IRS crackdown on fraud could turn that pro-family policy into another refund-delay mechanism. To fix the problem, the agency should publish specific related guidance to make claiming the credit faster and easier, says Andrew Leahey.

The IRS’s new method for extending the time to administratively resolve employee retention credit disputes is good news for taxpayers, but litigation in federal court may still be a better option for some, Taft’s Holland King says.

The current effects of AI on retirement plans are operational, fiduciary, and uneven across plan types, says Hall Benefits’ Samuel W. Krause in the first of a two-part article.

In the Amex case, France’s Supreme Court has reaffirmed the central role of the contract when identifying the recipient of services for VAT purposes in complex intragroup structures, Grant Thornton practitioners explain.

The UK Supreme Court’s ruling on tax relief for preparatory construction costs is likely to affect how companies appraise and price projects, say Stewarts practitioners.

Much is uncertain about the IRS’s plans to revise tax-exempt organizations’ reporting requirements, but nonprofits meanwhile should conduct internal reviews on Form 990 compliance and stay informed, Levene Legal’s Allie Levene says.